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...human evolutionary biology concentration within anthropology and the rest of the department, the Faculty Council—the 18-member governing body of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—passed a proposal yesterday to make human evolutionary biology a separate department. Under the plan, the anthropology department??which currently offers concentrations in human evolutionary biology and anthropology, with three separate tracks—would divide into two separate departments. The human evolutionary biology concentration offered by the anthropology department is essentially a life science with some elements of the social sciences—making it profoundly...
...There are so many things already sucking away faculty time from teaching in their home departments,” said history lecturer Adam G. Beaver, who is also the department??s assistant director of undergraduate studies and said that he would strongly favor the creation of a great books program. “Great books would be another thing...
...recent changes in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Information Technology Department??s scheduling policies, students looking for help with computer troubleshooting on Saturdays and Sundays are no longer able to take advantage of the Science Center’s computer clinic. Yet according to Noah S. Selsby ’94, a spokesperson for FAS IT, the cuts in weekend hours resulted not from FAS’s economic woes, but rather from the results of a statistical evaluation of the Clinic’s weekend traffic, which indicated an average of only three client-calls...
...That might explain the fact that while there are many writers among Cambridge’s literati, Bennett feels the writing scene can be surprisingly hush-hush.According to Bennett, the relative silence of the writing community stems from a combination of individual pride and the English Department??s notoriously critical approach. Bennett perceives this as having an indirectly positive effect. “The English Department discourages writing on the side, but not explicitly,” Bennett says. “Those who take writing seriously learn it’s best to do it on one?...
...implementing an ethnic studies curriculum in a discussion at Sever Hall yesterday evening. Seventeen students gathered to hear Glenda R. Carpio—an associate professor of African and African-American Studies—and Jigna Desai—a visiting associate professor in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Department??praise a newly-proposed ethnic studies program, which they said would allow students to discuss questions of racial and ethnic identity in an academic setting. “People end up talking in dorm rooms or over this kind of food, which are very powerful media...